Iran 1979 Pictures Echo Protests Today

On December 27, 1978, anti-monarchy demonstrators gather outside the Pahlavi Hospital in Tehran to protest the killing of a professor.

Photojournalist David Burnett, having at the time of this photograph been in Iran for less than 48 hours, uncapped his lens and captured some of the most striking pictures from the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, which would depose Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi--images eerily similar to photos coming out of Iran 30 years later.

Iran 1979 Pictures Echo Protests Today

On December 27, 1978, anti-monarchy demonstrators gather outside the Pahlavi Hospital in Tehran to protest the killing of a professor.

Photojournalist David Burnett, having at the time of this photograph been in Iran for less than 48 hours, uncapped his lens and captured some of the most striking pictures from the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, which would depose Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi--images eerily similar to photos coming out of Iran 30 years later.